The themes in "Dubliners".

For those of you who feel threatened by James Joyce, it might help you to know the main themes that the great Irish author deals with in his short stories. They are:

• The stages of life
• Poverty and class differences
• Colonization and Irish politics
• Defeat, powerlessness, imprisonment, and paralysis
• The prison of routine
• Longing for escape
• Isolation
• Mortality